“Brian came in here and helped stabilize our goaltending and make it one of the top tandems in the NHL,” said Blues GM Doug Armstrong. “Having Brian and Jaro [Halak] signed through the 13-14 season, our goaltending is set.”

Elliott’s posted a 15-5-1 record this season, ranking second in the NHL with a 1.68 goals-against average, .937 save percentage and five shutouts — which nobody saw coming after he flamed out in both Ottawa and Colorado.

“You’re going to have to look pretty deep to find a story that’s bigger than Elliott’s story,” Armstrong said. “It would be disingenuous to say that we saw this coming and we were smarter than everybody else in the NHL. The reality is, he’s come in and done a great job and we’re all benefiting from it.

“If there is a better story in the NHL this year, I’d like to read it.”

Gotta wonder where this puts Ben Bishop, other than Crying himself to sleep at night…

danphipps01 - Jan 18, 2012 at 6:56 PM

Good point on Armstrong. He’s done spectacular work for the Blues to get them where they are and as the quote about Elliott demonstrates, he’s remained pretty humble about it – when a GM’s having a banner year and still willing to admit to sheer dumb luck being part of it, you know he’s a good man for the job.